CORELINE (D20 Modern/D20 BESM Setting).

[Lord Zack]

Well since we're on the topic of X-Com, Mars is supposed to be a major source of elerium. Solmine is therefore likely a major power. As for Marsec, wouldn't it make more sense for them to be rivals of X-Com? Perhaps it would make mores sense for Megapol to have such a role.

Many of the Gundam series have settlers on Mars, including the Mars Zeon, or Oldsmobile Army, and the Vagan from Gundam AGE. I imagine those two at least would have an alliance. Those two factions might be involved in fighting the more aggressive alien species of the planet.

 

[Ravage_mk2]

don't forget that the original X-com had the alien HQ on mars.

There's also, potentially, Zone of the Enders, 2nd runner, Testament/Fist of Mars(GBA) and I, dolores

And those old ruins from various other works, including Nadesico among others....

Another thing from X-com, Apocalypse this time, is the S.E.L.F organisation.

Sentient
Engine
Liberation
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Basicly: "Androids are people too, and have the same rights!" type of organisation.

Come to think of it, could see the Mega Primus city from Xcom: Apocalypse being merged/integrated with the one from Appleseed.

Still working on that Symphogear stuff, and also that Coreline Education Agency thing. Actually had to watch a complete series that I plan to include

 

[marcoasalazarm]

Zone of the Enders and related material, AFAIK, is set on Jupiter (guess that would give us a start for that section...)

Olympus (the artificial island-slash-mega city where "Appleseed" happens) is the size of England (http://appleseed.wikia.com/wiki/Olympus)... maybe make Mega-Primus the (much smaller) Scotland to Olympus' England?

As for S.E.L.F.: maybe make it part of a semi-alliance of radical groups that support Artificial Intelligence (such as Corpore Metal and the First Church of Christ Computer Programmer from "Paranoia")? Name for this alliance... the "Transcendents" (or "Machine Transcendents")?

Thinking that AEGIS obtains a good chunk of cash from three mega-corporations that it has created to obtain funding, which are MarSec, Megapol and Solmine. Solmine is the relatively smallest of the corps, in charge of mining, refining and selling elements like Elerium, Alenium, Zrbite and other miscellaneous "alien alloys" (like Vibranium, in small amounts). Headquarters are on Mega-Primus with secondary HQ (and its biggest mine within the Sol System) on the Cydonia region of Mars. Other mines are located on other planets throughout the galaxy.

MarSec and Megapol are both corporations that sell weapons, gear and provide for-hire security. The difference is that MarSec provides its security services off-planet and the gear it sells is legally classified as "military-grade" while Megapol provides its security services on planet Earth and the gear it sells is legally classified as "civilian" or "police"-grade (although the former and the latter two are on opposite sides of a veeeerrrryyy thin line....).

Was thinking that on The Line Megapol is not the police for Mega-Primus per se, but they have a very strong alliance and as such blowing away Mega-Primus cops will net you about a 50/50 chance of ticking off X-COM.

The idea of MarSec being a X-COM division is kind of a shout-out to the fanfic "Terra From The Deep" (Oldie X-COM/Stargate crossover).

 

[Ravage_mk2]

the powersource/mineral used in the Orbital Frames (Like Jehuty, Anubis, Dolores, etc) is indeed mined near Jupiter, but most of the plot tended to revolve around that BAHRAM organisation on mars.

the GBA game, Testament (J) / Fist of Mars (U) is kinda of a SRT version of ZOE, though you don't have Jehuty and such. Plenty of other LEV and OF's though.


As for S.E.L.F as a radical group, they weren't that bad in the game, but then again, this is Coreline, with *alot* of people/beings that consider the only good robot to be a scrapped one, so a certain degree of.... self defense... would be picked up quick.

And, being machines, they *were* pretty much immune to being mind controlled, which was a definate help for X-com at times.

 

[marcoasalazarm]

Oh. Didn't knew that. Guess we need to work some more on adding ZOE to this thing, then. As for the Sectoid base on Mars, thinking they abandoned it and skedaddled, and now their base is mobile. Missions to spread terror and steal certain essential supplies are, as such, an occasional occurrence throughout the Solar System.

As for X-COM, guess they are more open about recruitment nowadays. Cyborgs, robots, probably even the occasional helpful alien. They are, however, pretty much zero-tolerance about potential betrayal. As in "we do to you what we do to captured enemies" zero tolerance.

 

[Ravage_mk2]

"Missions to spread terror and steal certain essential supplies are, as such, an occasional occurrence throughout the Solar System."

We could actually kick that up a notch: the "harvest" fleets from Vandread could be sectoid/ethereal run. The ethereals *certains* have the required callousness for (human) life.

Vydians from Star Trek Voyager would also fit for similar reasons, heck, they're probably the closest to the actual harvest fleet "leaders" from Vandread. "a necesary act for our survival"

I ommitted the actual leaders of the "harvest" to avoid spoilers, it's 0:30 AM and I can't recall any spoiler guidelines right now.

 

[marcoasalazarm]

Know that the harvest fleet on Vandred was run by humans. Don't remember who ran the Vydians.

Guess the Sectoids/Ethereals got a few drones from someplace.

 

[Ravage_mk2]

*EARTH* humans to be precise.

And aside from the planet buster capital ship in the final episode, the *entire* harvest fleet is unmanned drones/AI, so it's quite easy to have some other faction be the masters behind the fleet if you wanted to make a variant or something.

Vydians are a race from Star Trek Voyager. While neither really innately agressive or hostile, they ARE suffering from a rather nasty virus they call "Phage", which is constantly deteriorating their bodies making it necesary for them to obtain "donar" organs, etc, from other species they encounter to ensure their survival. They realize their actions are unforgivable, but when it's the only way to survive.... They *are* trying to find a cure for that Phage epidemic, though despite their vast knowledge of medical science, I don't recall them actually finding a cure for it *in series*

 

[marcoasalazarm]

OK, then... thinking that the Sectoid menace sticks to the Alpha Quadrant while the Vydians stick to the Delta.

 

[marcoasalazarm]

This is to make them, shall we say, masters of their domain. The surely get on each other's toes sometimes, but they have an unofficial "this is my side, this is your side" policy. That they send to the wind if there's something cool enough worth fighting for (which is a lot), which is why it's "unofficial".

Been also thinking of one or two other things to add to this setting... quick question: Battle School, yes or no? At the very least, Zero-G Laser Tag (and Paintball) is one of the crazes that are running around.